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When PR people do bad things

Mike Yamamoto Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Mike Yamamoto is an executive editor for CNET News.com.
Mike Yamamoto

As marketing bloggers proliferate at an alarming rate, this blog is doing its much-welcomed part to police our digital ecosystem. The self-explanatory Bad Pitch Blog, written and compiled by a couple of PR veterans, highlights some of the more egregious actions by peers in their business.

We can't do justice to the inanity of the examples in summary here, but we do offer a snippet from some of the delicious commentary that accompanies them: "Let's assume that English is not the author's native tongue, he/she skipped spellchecking/proofreading it, was going through a rough patch at home and was on heavy cold meds. This allows us to ignore the punctuation and writing atrocities committed here."

That's the nice part.